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		Cshelton on April 22, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interc... I just did some ownership percentage stuff where it's not uncommon to go 16 decimal places out...working with JavaScript on this was a pain. Never thought I'd care about that .00000000000001 difference hah...

tlarkworthy on April 22, 2016 [–]

floating point works best near 0, most of the numbers it can represent lie near 0 (negative exponent is a number less than 1).

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